Vantage Point

Catholic chaplains fighting a different battle in World War I: the fight against Spanish influenza

James B. Donovan closely followed the spy trial of Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960, and was interviewed by America.

While Prohibition’s popularity would wane by the end of the decade because of its unintended consequences, at the time of its ratification and implementation, it enjoyed a fair amount of popular support. Except in the pages of America.

In the July 27, 1974 issue of America, the editors laid out the ground rules and implications of the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon.

It is frighteningly easy to get nuns all wrong on the screen.

I’ve always wanted to give something to the sisters, and wish I had been able to give “The Bells of St. Mary’s.”